I've been getting some strange messages when booting and shutting down.

When I booting a see very quickly passing messages about "mount", but
they pass to fast to see. (The "break/pause" key doesn't work.) I could
not find these messages with "dmesg" or in "/var/log/syslog"... (BTW,
Is there another place to find these messages from boot and shutdown.
This is independent of this problem. It's just something I'd like to
know for the future.)

One message that I see is something like "/dev/sda6" not found or could
not write... (I am sorry I can't be more precise.)

Since I changed the default fstab, I thought I had messed it up
somehow. (This is a new installation, but up to date.)

If I am reading it correctly, the UUID of your root partition was changed, from the original /etc/fstab file, to the new one. Why would that be? Can you confirm that it is still correct (as root) with

Code:

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

finotti

Post subject:Posted: 05.11.2010, 20:16

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That is very odd!

Well, the result of "ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid" was in the original post. Root should be the one in the original. The UUID of the root partition in my new file doesn't even seem to exist, and I have no idea how I got it. (What I did wan get a copy of the original and just change the mounting points...) It is surprising that I can boot at all.

Thank you dibl so much for finding this. I will fix it and see if it fixes the problem.

Best to all,

Luis

x-un-i

Post subject:Posted: 05.11.2010, 20:55

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If you boot to runlevel 3

( enter e on grub and then edit the kernel line ( the one with "linux /boot...") and add at the end 3 - after that press Ctrl-X to boot.

then you can scroll up and down over the most part of the boot messages (use Shift+PgUp/PgDn)[/b]

As you can see from the original post, sda6 is a swap partition. Changing it to the other one (which would be the prefered) /dev/sdb3 gives the same error (with /dev/sdb3 instead, of course). It seems that I do have swap, though: